Day 131313

December 20: Day 13 (Last day!) Emily Hello again, friends. Wow, I need to write in order to de-stress. It’s been a long day. We packed all of our things and after cleaning up the shards of glass from a bottle I accidentally knocked over, we got on the ferry to Koh Samui, where the airport is. Got on a shuttle, and arrived. The airport is literally awesome. The gates are outside, with nice comfy chairs and complimentary chocolate milk and pizza. I’m not kidding. So we arrived in Bangkok around 5pm, and I checked into my hotel, which is swanky, let me tell you. A picture of me in the lobby is below. My room is super nice, with a bathtub and a shower. Wow it has been a long time since I’ve been in a nice hotel. We got on the subway to meet up with Christopher and Kiran somewhere in the city and got our last dinner together of ramen and dumplings. It was nice to see them again. I have to interrupt now to say that “What Does the Fox Say” is playing in one of the restaurants in the lobby right now. Life. Made. Anyway, after dinner and saying goodbye to our friends, Joey and I took a cab back to the hotel so he could pick up his bags. We had one final cuddle sesh, then off he went. And now I am alone. I was seriously stressed out for a lot of the evening because I was worried Joey would miss his flight, and I saw that the spa “menu” in my room said the spa was open until midnight. Hmm… a relaxing massage would be nice. Or a “milk and honey bath”. I set out to find said spa. I ended up at a deserted swimming pool with a lone barman and a very creepy garden. Eventually I found the spa and they said there were no more available treatments today so I left. I started experiencing drug-addict-like withdrawal symptoms from my lack of internet, so I went down to the lobby to search for some. $10 is a reasonable investment to pay for video chatting with my parents, I’d say. So, now I’m here, in the lobby of the airport hotel in Bangkok, and I don’t want to go back to my room because I haven’t been alone – really alone – for the last 4 months. Can you believe that? I need 30 people around me constantly now to feel normal. I used to love my alone time but now it’s just sort of… stressful and scary. But I’ll be fine. Well… I guess that’s it then. The end of the blog. You’ll have to check facebook to see what I’m up to back in LA. I can’t wait to be home and with my family for 6 weeks. Then… off to the next adventure! Alright. Goodbye! Emily PS: Now I get to go back and read all of Joey's posts... Tee hee hee! And, we are going to see each other when we are both back in LA… hooray!

Joey is on his way back to Texas now!

Swanky hotel lobby…. and me